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Designer, writer and television presenter, Kevin McCloud leapt into our consciousness with his vastly successful Grand Designs UK. The affable architectural business owner talks about taking ownership and responsibility for the villages, towns, and cities in which we live.
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One of the UK’s greatest creative filmmaking forces and director of multiple Oscar-nominated Belfast, Kenneth Branagh, looks back over three decades of big-budget production.
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Can you explain the meaning of “Santosha” and why you decided to make this your brand name? Santosha means ‘contentment’ in Sanskrit and it’s about cultivating inner peace in our lives. Often, we get caught up chasing something bigger and better, and lose sight of what we already have.  The...
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Google ‘Jason Cairns-Lawrence’ and you’ll find news sites from around the world citing him and his now-ex-wife Jenny as the ‘world’s unluckiest couple’ having been caught up in New York on 9/11, the London bombings of 7 July 2005, and Mumbai’s November 2008 terrorist attacks. Little surprise the British travellers were branded “tourists of evil omen”, according to the Press Trust of India.
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